Britain steps up its defences against AI risks

The UK government will extend a programme using frontier AI models to find vulnerabilities in its own systems, and will consider legislating on AI incident reporting and loss-of-control risk. The pilot behind it found 407 weaknesses across nine government organisations in a month for £13,000 in tokens.

Britain will expand a programme that points frontier AI models at the government’s own code to find flaws. It will also look at legislating for AI incident reporting and for systems that escape…